Coping with childhood maltreatment: Avoidance and eating disorder symptoms

Childhood maltreatment is associated with eating disorder symptoms; however, the nature of this association is unclear. We found those who experienced childhood maltreatment had higher avoidant coping and eating disorder symptoms. We also found an additive effect for maltreatment, such that with more types of maltreatment experienced, avoidant coping and eating disorder symptoms were greater. We also found evidence of an indirect effect such that childhood maltreatment was related to eating disorder symptoms through avoidant coping. Future research is needed to better understand factors that may promote development of adaptive coping patterns and prevention of eating disorder symptoms.

• Publication year

  2020

• Venue

  Journal of Health Psychology

• Publication date

  2020-06-25

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1177/1359105320937068PMID 32583705
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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